Kuria

The Kuria inhabit the highlands east of Lake Victoria, where farming settlements stand above the drier grazing lands to the south. Cattle are an important form of wealth and are exchanged in marriage. Kuria society is organised through clans as well as age groups: initiation brings people into age-sets, while a separate sequence of generation classes links fathers and children. These institutions give social life a rhythm shared across the neighbouring communities of the Mara country.